See: http://www.deepecology.org/movement.htm

I should say the Keep America Beautiful Man is a rather shallow guy, not a deep ecologist at all. Like most of these so called “technology optimists” are.

In nature, there is no such thing as “trash”. Just objects & substances that are most useful only in the right place & time. Human fecal material might be worthless to those that produce it, but for earthworms, beetles, and fungi, it is a valuable commodity ^^

“Craig, all the talk of new “green” buildings mainly mean filling up the houses with new technology so advanced that you need extremely expensive “experts” to sustain them, with expensive service agreements, expensive reserve parts etc, etc.” [end quote]

And to add to that, what would be so “green” about consumer technologies that, while using less electricity than older counterparts, require exotic minerals that must be strip-mined from the earth – thus causing widespread environmental damage in the process?

Sounds to me like a repeat of the “Green Revolution” of Norman Borlaug and co. What was supposed to be a giant leap forward only turned out to be a humongous leap backward.

The most sustainable is to use natural ventilation, natural moisture regulation materials, heat accumulating materials etc. But the construction industry shies these natural techniques, as they cannot earn anything extra from them. F. ex. here they try to prohibit natural ventilation, which not can break down, doesn’t need service agreements, reserve parts, no noise or ultra sound, and that doesn’t destroy the ion balance:

http://www.jamesgoulding.com/Research_II/Odlyzko/Odlyzko%20%28Resources%29.pdf